I am a fan of Alicia, Diary is in constant rotation on my Ipod. I found myself to be really hyped when the album came out, but I must admit that after purchasing it and playing it serveral times trying to make it "grow" on me I am somewhat disappointed. The first five songs on it I actually like, but after that I repeatedly want to go back to number two. The fact that she is trying to switch it up does not sit well with me as her style is what made me like her to begin with. I hate to say this but vocally to me anyway her range is also limited, however this is something I thought we all knew, including her. In most of the songs she appears to be struggling to maintain the tone and pitch. I agree with one of the previous posters, this is not a total disaster, although it leaves way to much skipping of non appealing material which makes up IMHO more than 50% of the disk. If given the opportunity again I would have just purchased the ones I liked off of Itunes and saved about eight bucks! But I wanted to support her and purchase the album during the first week of release.